European Bloodstock News 2020 ROUTE DES ETALONS A warm welcome from the NORMANDY STUDS 26 studs from the beautiful and historic region of Normandy open their doors for the annual La Route des Etalons with over 100 stallions available to view this weekend. SATURDAY 18TH AND SUNDAY 19TH JANUARY Further information can be found on the tour’s dedicated website: www.laroutedesetalons.com Whilst every care has been taken to trace the qualifying sires, EBN takes no responsibility for errors or omissions. All material contained within (excluding supplied advertisements) is the copyright of European Bloodstock News. 2020 ROUTE DES ETALONS EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS BOW CREEK CLOTH OF STARS Shamardal – Beneventa (Most Welcome) Sea The Stars – Strawberry Fledge (Kingmambo) HARAS DU LOGIS • Fee €4,000 Oct 1 SLF HARAS DU LOGIS • Fee €7,500 Oct 1 SLF The first crop of triple Gr.2 winner and Darley Club stallion Bow The highest-rated son by Sea The Stars, with a Timeform rating Creek will hit the track this season. A high-class performer in of 132, Cloth Of Stars covered 120 mares in his first book. both hemispheres, he began his career with Mark Johnston and As blue-blooded as you are likely to see, the seven-year-old was a dual winner as a juvenile, before flourishing at three. is out of a placed Kingmambo full-sister to the Gr.1 Oaks Winner of the Listed International Trial Stakes that April, he was heroine Light Shift, dam of dual Gr.1 winner and sire Ulysses, later placed in the Gr.3 Thoroughbred Stakes before winning and is a half-sister to the Gr.1-winning mare Shiva (Hector the Gr.2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood, in a faster time than Protector), as well as the dual Gr.2-winning sire Limnos both Cape Cross and Raven’s Pass, and the Gr.2 Solonaway (Hector Protector) and the Listed-winning grandam of the Stakes at Leopardstown, finishing in front of Gr.1 winners multiple Gr.1 scorer Main Sequence. The third dam is the Gordon Lord Byron and Parish Hall. European Champion Three-Year-Old and dual Gr.1 winner In the middle of his four-year-old season he was transferred Northern Trick (Northern Dancer), who was also runner-up to Godolphin’s Australian operation and was second on his in the Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Australian debut in the Gr.2 Crystal Mile, which was landed by The young sire finished runner-up to Enable in 2017 in the multiple Gr.1 winner Turn Me Loose. During his Australian stint Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly, and was third with John O’Shea he recorded a length and a half win in the Gr.2 behind the superstar filly and Sea Of Class in the 2018 Peter Young Stakes at Caulfield, where he had seven Gr.1 Longchamp renewal. winners behind him including Fenway, Mourinho and Winner of his first two starts as a juvenile, including the Gr.3 Ivanhowe. In total he won six of his 24 starts and was placed a Prix des Chenes, he was runner-up in the Gr.1 Criterium de further seven times. Saint-Cloud later that year. At three, he won both the Gr.3 Prix The son of Shamardal is a half-brother to Dare To Dance La Force and the Gr.2 Prix Greffulhe, and put a poor run in the (Danehill Dancer), who has twice been placed in Gr.3 company Gr.1 Derby behind him with a third in the Gr.1 Grand Prix de in Australia, out of the Gr.3 (then) Dahlia Stakes winner Paris. He did not reappear until the following March, when Beneventa (Most Welcome). This is also the family of Group racking up three Group wins, culminating in a win over Zarak winners Bay Empress, Orizaba and Thunder Bertie. in the Gr.1 Prix Ganay. €4,000 Oct 1, SLF See this star:G1 juvenile whose Super-tough, super-talented: typical of the Shamardal lineof Lope de Vega second place in the Arc was rated and Pinatubo. superior to his sire’s winin the race. Tweets of great feats Be first with the news @DarleyEurope €7,500 Oct 1, SLF 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 2020 ROUTE DES ETALONS EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS DARIYAN DE TREVILLE Shamardal – Daryakana (Selkirk) Oasis Dream – Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) HARAS DE BONNEVAL • Fee €8,000 LF HARAS DU MEZERAY • Fee €2,000 The first yearlings by HH The Aga Khan’s homebred Gr.1 Being known as ‘the brother of’ can be a blessing and a curse, winner Dariyan found plenty of favour in the sales ring last but it is surely firmly in the positive column that De Treville is a year, selling for up to €115,000 at the Arqana August Yearling half-brother to the Champion juvenile and Gr.1-winning miler Sale and for up to €105,000 at Arqana’s October Yearling Sale, Too Darn Hot, who embarks on his own stud career this year. and the first runners by the young sire are eagerly anticipated De Treville is three years ahead of his younger half-brother, this year. having his first yearlings this year. He is the first foal out of the Dariyan crowned his career with victory in the Gr.1 Prix Champion Dar Re Mi (Singspiel), who scored three times at the Ganay over 2100m, beating nine other Group winners, having highest level in the Pretty Polly Stakes, Yorkshire Oaks and Dubai won the Gr.2 Prix Eugene Adam over 2000m at three. He was Sheema Classic and was Gr.1-placed a further three times. placed in two other Gr.1s, including the 1800m Prix d’Ispahan, De Treville broke his maiden at Chantilly in July of his juvenile in which he finished in front of six other Gr.1 winners, and was season and went on to finish runner-up in the Gr.3 Prix des Group-placed over 2400m in Dubai and in the 2400m Gr.1 Chenes. Returning at three with victory in a conditions contest Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin. at Longchamp, he was Group-placed three times in the Gr.3 Prix He is a son of Shamardal, whose prowess as a stallion de Guiche, Gr.3 Prix Paul de Moussac and the Gr.3 Prix de la Porte continues to grow, with a hat-trick of top-level juvenile Maillot, after which his career took him to the US and Germany. winners last year, while his stallion sons also include such as As well as his illustrious half-brother, De Treville is a half- Lope De Vega, sire of nine Gr.1 winners himself. brother to a pair of high-class daughters of Dubawi in the Gr.2 Dariyan is the first foal out of the Gr.1 Hong Kong Vase and Middleton Stakes winner Lah Ti Dar, also placed four times at Gr.2 Prix de Royallieu winner Daryakana (Selkirk), and is a the highest level, including in the St Leger, and So Mi Dar, half-brother to the Listed winners Darabad and Dariyza. The winner of the Gr.3 Musidora Stakes and Gr.1-placed in the Prix grandam, Daryaba (Night Shift), won the Gr.1 Prix de Diane de l’Opera. He hails from an outstanding further family, with his and Gr.1 Prix Vermeille and is the dam of three other Stakes dam being a half-sister to a trio of Gr.1 winners in Rewilding, horses. Others further back in the family include the Diaghilev and Darazari, while his Gr.1-winning grandam Champions and Classic winners Darjina and Almanzor. Darara (Top Ville) is a half-sister to the outstanding Darshaan. THE AGA KHAN STUDS Success Breeds Success DARIYAN First 2 year olds in 2020 A Gr.1 winning son of the mighty SHAMARDAL with an exceptional pedigree. His first yearlings sold for up to €115,000 and are now in training with Simon Crisford, Michael Halford, Freddy Head, Alain de Royer Dupré, etc. CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 2020 ROUTE DES ETALONS EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS DIAMOND GREEN DSCHINGIS SECRET Green Desert – Diamonaka (Akarad) Soldier Hollow – Divya (Platini) HARAS DES ETINCELLES • Fee €2,500 LF HARAS DE SAINT ARNOULT • Fee €5,000 LF Diamond Green began his stud career in Ireland before The 2017 German Horse of the Year Dschingis Secret moving to France in 2011, where he stands this season in his embarked on his stallion career at Haras de Saint Arnoult last new home at Haras des Etincelles for €2,500. year, covering a healthy book of mares in his first season. His early stud career was highlighted by the Gr.1 Beverly D One of five Gr.1 winners by his Champion sire Soldier Stakes heroine Watsdachances, who also collected two US Gr.3 Hollow, he cost €200,000 at BBAG as a yearling and retired contests, and from his first French-conceived crop came the from the track with seven victories and six places under his Listed winner Sexy Metro, also runner-up in the Gr.2 Prix Robert belt, and earnings of some £400,000. Placed at two, he won Papin. The nine individual winners from his first french crop the Gr.3 St Leger Italiano at three after finishing third in the were enough to secure him the runner-up spot behind Siyouni Gr.2 Union-Rennen and being beaten a head and a neck in a for French-based sires of two-year-olds that year.